Networking Problem

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twfmike

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Bear with me, it's a bit confusing....

I have a small office windows network. There's a wireless router, which is connected to a wired hub. There are 5 Windows PCs connected to the hub, all running XP (some Home Edition, some Pro). There's a windows laptop connected wirelessly, and there's my Intel Macbook running Leopard, which connects wirelessly.

So far, so good, all the machines can see each other most of the time, and when they can't a restart or a reset of the router and hub usually does the trick.

BUT, when I run parrallels on my Mac, which has XP Home with SP3 running, I can only find the other laptop and the OSX side of my mac on the network, none of the wired machines.

Any ideas??
 
Hello, twfmike,

would you please clarify the virtual machine network configuration - type of connection (shared, bridged), etc
 
I think it would be shared networking. Under Parallels preferences, the box "Enable DHCP scope for shared networking" is checked. But I'm not entirely sure what this means.
 
Hello, twfmike,

Yes, please, some further information:
- what happens if you switch the type to Bridged;
- the output from ifconfig command on Mac (Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal -> type 'ifconfig' without quotes -> hit Return) and ipconfig command in Windows (Start -> Run... -> type 'cmd' without quotes -> type ipconfig -> hit Return)
 
DaTa said:
Hello, twfmike,

Yes, please, some further information:
- what happens if you switch the type to Bridged;

Can you tell me how to do this?


- the output from ifconfig command on Mac (Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal -> type 'ifconfig' without quotes -> hit Return)

Mikes-MacBook-2:~ mikeroberts$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:1e:c2:0d:01:8c
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,flow-control> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <full-duplex,flow-control> 1000baseT <full-duplex> 1000baseT <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 1000baseT <full-duplex,flow-control> none
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21e:c2ff:fe9c:e8d6%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 00:1e:c2:9c:e8:d6
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect
fw0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 2030
lladdr 00:1f:5b:ff:fe:02:f7:36
media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>
en2: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:0%en2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7
inet 10.37.129.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.37.129.255
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:00
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect
en3: flags=8963<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21c:42ff:fe00:1%en3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
inet 10.211.55.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.211.55.255
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:01
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect



and ipconfig command in Windows (Start -> Run... -> type 'cmd' without quotes -> type ipconfig -> hit Return)
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Connection Specific DNS Suffix:
IP Address 10.211.55.3
Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
Default Gateways: 10.211.55.1



Thanks for your help.

Mike
 
I've now changed it to a bridged connection and it works. Thanks for your help DaTa.
I cant say I understand the difference between shared and bridged - would be good to know what I've done!

Cheers,

Mike
 
twfmike said:
BUT, when I run parrallels on my Mac, which has XP Home with SP3 running, I can only find the other laptop and the OSX side of my mac on the network, none of the wired machines.

Any ideas??
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Do you mean that you don't see other laptop on Mac OS X side, or you don't see other laptop on WinXP-side?

If the later, then this is due to the nature of Shared Networking. It doesn't allow Browsing of network. But you should still be able to connect to other machines using their full name.
 
Oops -) I'm sorry - I have not refreshed my browser and have answered on question on which DaTa had already given perfect answer -)
 
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